by Mark McDermott
Video by Brad Jacobson (@iambradjacobson)
It was a match that seemed set up for comeuppance.
Mira Costa High School's nationally top-ranked boys volleyball team faced its bitterest archrivals, No. 2 Loyola, whom they'd beaten twice already this season, most recently a week ago in a dominating three set sweep to claim the CIF Southern Section title.
Beating any team three times in a season is famously hard to do, much less a rival who has been nearly as dominant, going
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Correction about Costa’s upcoming opponent in the state final…. Northgate High School is in Walnut Creek in the San Francisco East Bay, not Walnut. As a Costa grad ’79, and former coach of the Boy’s VB team at Northgate’s rival high school, Las Lomas, I will be in Fresno next weekend to to see if Norcal can at least get a little respect. However, my prediction is Mustangs in 3….